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10,000 drones? How big a drone are we talking? They would have to be big enough to carry a weapon big enough to penetrate at least 1/2" steel (at the thinnest,
by killjoywashere 8y ago
10,000 drones? How big a drone are we talking? They would have to be big enough to carry a weapon big enough to penetrate at least 1/2" steel (at the thinnest, only accessible from the side). If out to sea, a small EMP could drop them all.
Battles won by numerical superiority are usually won by defenders. If it's an invader, it's almost certainly early in the game. Even at the end of WW2, Germany wasn't invaded so much as it lost in France and Russia. The Allied rush to Berlin was an early aftermath. By the time supply chains necessary to conduct a protracted war have been committed, the true cost starts making invaders progressively less interested.
A more interesting concern is the major powers using proxies to demonstrate their new tech. If Russia sold Syria 10,000 drones, that might get interesting.
- titzer 8y ago> Even at the end of WW2, Germany wasn't invaded so much as it lost in France and Russia Sorry, no. Germany was very quickly overrun in 1945. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1945-05-01GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1945-05-01GerWW2Batt... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1945-05-15GerWW2BattlefrontAtlas.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1945-05-15GerWW2Batt...
- emiliobumachar 8y agoWhat they possibly meant was: the war was already lost when they got invaded at all.
- maxxxxx 8y agoThat certainly was true. The war was already lost when they were still deeply into Russia. the last 2 years of WW2 were just trying to fight off the inevitable.